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Music

Earworms, one-hit wonders, Auto-Tune — the vocabulary the music industry gave everyday English, plus the composers whose names became shorthand for genius.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

The German composer who bridged Classical and Romantic music, went deaf, and kept composing — the tortured-genius archetype.

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One-Hit Wonder

An artist, product, or person known for a single famous output and nothing else.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Austrian child prodigy who composed his way through 600 works before dying at thirty-five — and gave English its template for 'genius cut short.'